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For Taijiquan students of the Martial and Health Ways for those 50’s & 60’s in age… free from anecdotal explanations and demonstrations. For those willing to perform at high levels of athleticism after their physical peaks… this post is for you!!!
I am a Steven Hemphill Kickboxing Blackbelt, a Wu Taijiquan Adept and Gracie Barra, Checkmat and Brasa Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Competitor. My energetic, standing and ground forms come from pressure testing the skills I have learned from these martial art disciplines in pugilistic submission fighting training, competition and recovery. Before the authenticity critique of Kung Fu peeps comes there are questions must be asked and answered:
What Taijiquan Practitioner in their 60’s has the internal boxing and grappling skills to:
1. Match a Bushido MMA BJJ Blackbelt more than 10 years younger?
2. Match the skills of a 34 year old Professional Boxer
3. Over come and submit a Professional EMT & Fireman of 21 years of age and a 20 year old experienced MMA fighter out working them to the point of projectile vomiting?
4. Have the essence gathering, energy form refining and vitality cultivation to construct a physical form of a man half his age?
5. Has shown peerless abilities by applying his art in one of the most prestigious promotions in the world of grappling and winning a World and Multiple Pan American Championships at the middleweight, mid heavyweight and Heavyweight divisions! And produced champions with his method at the world class level!!! And has published the way to do so
Western Long Boxing: Tao of Ten Gated Changes https://a.co/d/2Dzokdk
Bardos of Jujizu: A Journey of a Black Walker https://a.co/d/hWzuMfD
A New Noon: The Religion of Jiu Jitsu https://a.co/d/7r6w6Cz
If you can come up with 3 you would be hard pressed. That is why this form is important. It is significant in the sense of showing the highest levels of potential for a Taijiquan adept in the 21st century. Not Marty of others…. Mastery of the highest performance standards of self. Nothing I do is original. It comes from Eastern and Western treatise and scholarly studies of Abdibhama Psychology and Phenomenological Psychology.
a couple of the videos:
https://www.facebook.com/591645974/videos/pcb.1344614233120763/1966961167012697
https://www.facebook.com/591645974/videos/pcb.1344614233120763/162756520172431
Have always enjoyed following GS and his accomplishments in Martial arts. His journey into BJJ I find quite inspirational as it's an art I'm interested in progressing further myself in my 50's.
It's very evident that G is a true internal practitioner as well as fighter and fight trainer. It's rare as hens teeth. Respect where it's due.
Another plus for me, is he's not one of those guys paying lip service to "neigong" and essentially treating it as a set of weigong.. or makiing internal into a bunch of body skills (as nice and interesting as those may be) divorced as can be from real time martial usage. He gets on with the Pugilistic training and skill, which is really what martial arts, internally driven or not, was always meant to be about - to my mind.